Shorebird Survey
Location: Muskegon Wastewater System
Observation date: 7/23/10
Notes: 84-80 degrees F; WNW 4mph; 50% cloud cover; infiltration basins unmowed and dry except around outlets; in B section 2 covered with standing stagnant water,1 with recently added shallow water; all aerators full but small easternmost holding basin next to center dike had exposed muddy shoreline; that, the north shore of West Lagoon and east end of East Lagoon only mudflat type habitat; spotted sandpipers using rocky banks.
Number of species: 8
Semipalmated Plover - 1 adult
Killdeer - 8
Spotted Sandpiper - 62
Lesser Yellowlegs - 4
Upland Sandpiper - 1 juv - crisply patterned plumage with unworn pale fringes and dark subterminal lines on scaps, coverts.
Sanderling - 1 in winter plumage
Least Sandpiper - 12 1 juv; others adults
Pectoral Sandpiper - 3
2 American Kestrel juveniles hunting from irrigator in field at east end of East Lagoon; adult seen in same area. Dickcissels singing along White Road; also along Swanson Rd south of Apple.
Observation date: 7/23/10
Notes: 84-80 degrees F; WNW 4mph; 50% cloud cover; infiltration basins unmowed and dry except around outlets; in B section 2 covered with standing stagnant water,1 with recently added shallow water; all aerators full but small easternmost holding basin next to center dike had exposed muddy shoreline; that, the north shore of West Lagoon and east end of East Lagoon only mudflat type habitat; spotted sandpipers using rocky banks.
Number of species: 8
Semipalmated Plover - 1 adult
Killdeer - 8
Spotted Sandpiper - 62
Lesser Yellowlegs - 4
Upland Sandpiper - 1 juv - crisply patterned plumage with unworn pale fringes and dark subterminal lines on scaps, coverts.
Sanderling - 1 in winter plumage
Least Sandpiper - 12 1 juv; others adults
Pectoral Sandpiper - 3
2 American Kestrel juveniles hunting from irrigator in field at east end of East Lagoon; adult seen in same area. Dickcissels singing along White Road; also along Swanson Rd south of Apple.
- Carolyn Weng
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1 comment:
Thanks for the post Carolyn, and for all your efforts surveying this site! I predict you'll find something very rare before too much longer.
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